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Strange Vibes Weird Fiction Anthology
Twenty strange and terrifying tales! We're absolutely thrilled, and I'm sure you will be too, with our rollicking lineup of the mad, wondrous, macabre, mysterious, eldritch, darkly comedic and just plain weird! A big thank you to the superb authors participating, with their unique stories, in the debut edition of Strange Vibes Weird Fiction Anthology, TBR March 31 2026.
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Meet the Authors!
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Brian Terence ~ EJ LeRoy ~ A Anthony Duran ~ DW Milton ~ Paul Harman ~ Ricardo D Rebelo ~ Sirius ~ RJ Butler ~ Samantha Hammond ~ Sergio Palumbo & Alessandro Loi ~ Paul Radcliffe ~ Alex C Telander ~ C Lenz ~ Ian Klink ~ Ken MacGregor ~ Nicholas Kellogg ~ Sylvia Kay Rose ~ Norman Goodman ~ Mike A Rhodes
Brian Terence - Welcome to McDemon's
Our dubious hero tries to order at a burger joint with malfunctioning machines, and soon realizes the horrific truth.
About the Author
Brian Terence writes a wide range of science fiction stories, both full novels and short stories, covering subjects such as Humor, Post-apocalyptic, Space Adventures, Mysteries, Paranormal, Alien Invasion, Time Travel; & Robots. Some are humorous, and others are more poignant and thought-provoking.
EJ LeRoy - Hologram with Benefits
Tiffany considers unplugging her seductive hologram friend, Lenny, due to her confessional guilt.
About the Author
EJ LeRoy is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, whose work has appeared in several publications including Cetera Magazine, Creepypod, Horrific Scribes, Neon Dystopia, and Permanent Flux. LeRoy also has a light body horror, science fiction, mpreg novella published at The Whumpy Printing Press titled Pleading His Belly on Zakon-4.
Visit EJ LeRoy’s website
Hologram with Benefits originally appeared in the online publication Neon Dystopia on May 7, 2025.
A Anthony Duran - Exit Stage
Trapped in a staged world, a man relives his girlfriend’s death repeatedly, as shades of reality entwine.
About the Author
A Anthony Duran is an absurdist fictionist and cartoonist. He’s self-taught, and currently self-publishing his own series, The Eerie Adventures of Liam & His Shadow, with original artwork. Get it on Kobo, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and more.
Connect with Anthony on Bluesky
DW Milton - No Solicitors
Hannah wants to sell her cookies, no matter what! A fun read, with a wicked twist.
About the Author
DW Milton is a pen name. The author has a day job, but would rather be writing speculative fiction.
Paul Harman - Statue Licking
A wildly weird tale of drug addiction, and the mysterious decay of metals.
About the Author
Paul Harman is a writer from Australia, who's been writing and self-publishing short stories for the last few years. He has published sporting fiction in the Australian online website, the footyalmanac.com, and also writes speculative fiction stories.
Visit Paul’s Website: paulharman.com.au
Ricardo D Rebelo - The Cosmic Cat
A black cat senses an ancient, dormant cosmic force below a hotel. What happens next will shock you!
About the Author
Ricardo D Rebelo is a horror writer and filmmaker, specializing in supernatural horror, cryptid folklore, and the history of horror cinema. A lifelong New Englander based in Fall River, Massachusetts, he is the author of multiple #1 Amazon Best Sellers in nonfiction film guides, regional folklore, and children’s horror.
His fiction has appeared in over 30 anthologies and magazines, including Monsters in the Mills, nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association.
Sirius - The Wonderful World of Moxie and Belly
Lonely little Sara connects with a wall-dwelling friend, and a strange TV show character.
About the Author
Sirius is a non-binary, disabled author writing from North Carolina. Their short stories have been included in anthologies such as the Books of Horror Community Anthology Vol 4, The Monsters Next Door, Frontiers of Fright, Doors of Darkness, Paranormal Inc II, and further.
Their gothic horror novels Swallow You Whole and Sever Your Spine have been published through Curious Corvid Publishing, with further works forthcoming. Their Southern horror novella, On Air With the Devil, was released February 17th. The short story, Pick His Bones Clean, is their most recent, and appeared in The Monsters Next Door II anthology by Critical Blast.
RJ Butler - The Whispering Shale
A mysterious box holds an object of miraculous and sinister power.
About the Author
Robert Cumming writes horror and weird fiction under the pen name RJ Butler. His work explores obsession, guilt, folklore, and the intrusion of the uncanny into ordinary lives.
His stories have appeared in Dark Harbour and Stygian Lepus, with several additional pieces forthcoming, and some have been adapted for audio formats. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing, focusing on folklore and contemporary horror, and is developing his first short story collection. He lives in Cumbria, England, where the landscape frequently finds its way into his work.
Samantha Hammond - Lost Wagon: A Western Mages Story
A dark spirit haunts a wayward wagon in this western tale of mystery and magic.
About the Author
Living in a rural western community gives Samantha Hammond a personal understanding of the history and characters inhabiting the prairies and Rocky Mountains today. Working cattle hasn't changed much in the last two hundred years and the characters of the rangelands today are as fierce and independent as ever.
Sam enjoys the outdoors, and converts her modern day adventures, with a little help from her imagination, to stories including a touch of history, the wonder of exploration, and a love of the world around her that she can share.
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Sergio Palumbo & Alessandro Loi - Much Drinking, Little Thinking ...
On a ship in the Black Sea, Zlavwko is encouraged to drink ... and learns the true meaning of fear.
About the Authors
Alessandro Loi was a member of Game/Scale Model Club La Centuria, working to bring life to the Italian fantasy role-playing game manual War Blades, more than 700 pages. He developed the designs of the Fantasy ships used by the many different Fantasy species depicted there.
Experienced scale modeler of vessels and starships, other than mecha, he was well versed in military history, and his interests encompassed Japanese Gundam/Macross/Yamato.
Alessandro passed away from Covid in 2020, at the age of 48. He leaves his beloved wife Silvia, and his old mother.
Sergio Palumbo is an Italian public servant, who graduated from Law School working in the public real estate branch. He is also a co-Editor, together with Mrs. Michele Dutcher, of the new Steampunk Anthology Steam-powered Dream Engines, published in March 2018 by Rogue Planet Press, an Imprint of British Horrified Press; and of the new Fantasy/Sci-Fi Anthology Fantastical Savannahs and Jungles, published March 2019 by the same publisher.
The subsequent book edited by him, together with Mrs. Michele Dutcher, is the new Sci-Fi Anthology “Xenobiology – Stranger Creatures”, published in September 2020 by Rogue Planet Press, an imprint of British Horrified Press.
Much Drinking, Little Thinking … was first published in the British Lovecraftiana—the Magazine of Eldritch Horror, in 2022.
Paul Radcliffe - Multiforme
A brain tumor chronicles its terrible progress as a force of destruction
About the Author
Paul Radcliffe is based in New Zealand. He had an aunt who lived in a haunted farmhouse in England. Haunted by a monk-yes,really-which explains a lot.
Paul works in Emergency, and is susceptible to hypnosis by cats. He explores the supernatural at its most disturbing, when it subtly overlaps the everyday, and boundaries blur.
He’s worked in various places unlikely to be confused with holiday destinations. He grew up in Liverpool but missed the Beatles, and is always eager to add to a growing collection of pirate jokes.
Alex C Telander - Waterfall
A man grieving for his wife has strange encounters by a compelling waterfall.
About the Author
Alex C Telander is the mad scientist, creator and writer of the ghoulish Ostium Podcast, and the very gay Circe Podcast. Both podcasts are part of the Transylvanian fortress known as the Rusty Quill Network. He has a creepy spider story in the forthcoming anthology Consumed.
His blood-filled short story My Dark Genesis was published in the anthology These Vampires Still Don't Sparkle. He has written under threat of torture for the Magnus Protocol podcast, Tiny Terrors podcast, and Nine to Midnight podcast.
Visit Alex’s Website - www.ostiumnetwork.com.
C Lenz - The Perfect Summer
At a boys' camp, a miraculous happening grows into a nightmare of surreal proportions.
About the Author
C Lenz is a writer, scientist, and poorly socialized gremlin. Born in the Uncanny Valley, she currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with her wife Zoey.
Her work has appeared in Hyphen-Punk, Metaphorosis, and the NoSleep Podcast, among others. When she's not writing, sciencing, or playing saxophone for the band Jump Coven, she's designing the worst outfits she can and wearing them in public.
Visit her Author Website
Ian Klink - Taps
Revenge is sweet, especially from beyond the grave.
About the Author
As a filmmaker, writer, and artist, Ian Klink’s work includes the feature film Anybody’s Blues, the novel Lucky from New Fangle Press, and short stories for Weren't Another Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by Waylon Jennings; The Beauty in Darkness: Illustrated Poetry Anthology, Negative Creep: A Nirvana-Inspired Anthology.
His writing can also be found in A-Z of Horror: U is for Unexplained; Hellbound Books Anthology of Flash Fiction; Space Opera Stories: Alien Invasions; Beautiful Tragedies 4 - Hellbound Book'; Anthology of Dark Poetry; The Creeps; Vampiress Carmilla; The Siren’s Call; and Chilling Tales For Dark Nights.
Born and raised in Iowa, Ian Klink now resides in Pennsylvania, where he teaches multimedia studies.
Ken MacGregor - The Abduction of Glynnis Johnson
Retired teacher Glynnis notices a mysterious island in the ocean growing larger and more bizarre.
About the Author
Ken MacGregor has written four story collections, an award-winning young adult novella, and has co-authored a novel. He is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association.
He’s also written TV and radio commercials, sketch comedy, a music video, a one-act play, a scattering of poems, and a zombie movie. Ken has curated three original anthologies, one of which was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award.
Ken drives the bookmobile in a small Michigan city, and lives with his kids, the ghosts of a few cats, and literally hundreds of books.
The Abduction of Glynnis Johnson was originally published in An Aberrant Mind 2012, Sirens Call Publications
Nicholas Kellogg - Blue Boogie Bag
A drug-addicted fast-food worker spirals out of control as his body deteriorates.
About the Author
Nicholas Kellogg weaves chilling tales from his home in Connecticut, where he lives with his partner. With two children under five, he balances fatherhood and a full-time job.
Early in the morning prior to work, he creates nightmares while many are still having them, drawing inspiration from the eerie realities of everyday life, while exploring the darkness beneath the ordinary.
Sylvia Kay Rose - I Wants Me Teeth!
A gruesome horror comedy about homicidal dentures possessed by a vengeful spirit.
About the Author
Sylvia Kay Rose is a Canadian author writing in niche genres such as horror comedy, and fantasy based on German mythology. A member of the Horror Writer Association, she curates and edits the Strange Vibes Anthology.
Sylvia has also worked in visual arts, theater as a scene painter, event organizer, producer and playwright; and dabbled in filmmaking. Weird since childhood, she’s a big fan of old horror movies and the theme recurs throughout her work.
Norman Goodman - Line 54(4)
When Line 54 is no more, a fearsome adventure begins. How will it end?
About the Author
Norman Goodman is the pen name of Nenad Mitrovich of Serbia. Nemad is the author of five novels, written in Serbian and published in Serbia.
The short story Line 54(4) won the annual contest of the Mirko Petrović library in Negotin (East Serbia) in 2022.
The short story The Right To Die was the winner of the annual competition “Miodrag Borisavljević” (Serbia) in 2024. Nemad’s work can be found in publications such as Dark Harbor, Gothic Gazette, Pulp Cult Magazine, Laughing Man, Horrific Scribblings Magazine, and many more.
Website: www.nenadmitrovic.rs
Mike A Rhodes - Growing Pumpkins
Horror grows in a pumpkin patch, as pregnant Julia approaches her delivery date.
About the Author
Mike A Rhodes is from Sheffield, England. He enjoys reading, writing, ice hockey and food – although sometimes in a completely different order. While not disabled himself, he played Para Ice Hockey for the Sheffield Steelkings Para Ice Hockey Club for seven seasons.
Connect with Mike on X @MikeARhodes.
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